“Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.” IfsMenNeedsMeanImportantEconomicHe ManDiseaseMalesObviousSatisfiedSatisfyingUrgentProstitutionIntercourseDisease And Death Book:The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition Source: The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition
“Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.” PeopleBelieveMayImportantMightAbleArtistCommonGreaterSeeingDiseaseRegardObviousLocalsCommon SenseCuresPetResentmentIgnoredCartoonSidewalkFetishSeething Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.” CultureSocialCasesImpossibleCivilizationDiseaseConceptsCrisisMetaphorObviousDisorderDomain Author:Johan Huizinga
“It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.” HumansWellsInspirationSeemsMotivationDifferencesBuildingDiseaseStandardsSafetyNotionObviousSpreadWell BeingHealthcareAirplaneTolerate Author:Sam Harris
“Illness is something out of balance, rather than something within balance. It's been something that is created and it's been created for a purpose and a reason, and that purpose or reason may not be obvious to the person that has the disease. Nevertheless, there is something going on and it's not always easy to find that out.” MayPersonsReasonPurposeEasyBalanceDiseaseIllnessObviousNevertheless Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.” PeopleFirstsWishFailingEffectsDiseaseFaultsObviousHearingVisibleEnlightenedTaoismAffectedLiverKidneysDiseasedEyesight Author:Zicheng Hong
“The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.” WorldLittlesHandsLanguageFictionDarknessExampleDramaDrugDiseaseAddAddictionCurrentsObviousCynicalNeuroticBrutalityDrug AddictionWearinessDrug AddictDiscordDrearyDementiaDysfunction Author:Tom Robbins
“Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.” MenEnemyEnvironmentWorstDiseaseObviousManifestationImpressedCreepsWorst Enemy Author:Rene Dubos